Navajo: hook below vowels
dtlen@gov.yk.ca
Fri, 28 Jul 1995 10:01:49 PDT
The Nav. word for nose is, chiiN (N=nasalises vowel it follows-ie.
pronounced through the nose). I checked _The Navajo Language_, Young and
Morgan but no luck. As there would be no name for this in Nav. a Nav.
speaker would have to invent or create a word. I don't think 'hooked
nose' would work. While Nav. has many descriptions for the nose: No
nose, noseless, stump nose, stub nose, thin nose, needle nose, pug nose,
crook nose, hooknose, eagle beak, big nose, broad nose, flat nose,
little nose, snub nose, flat nose. I suppose someone could make up a
Nav. phrase that says, 'one talks through his nose'. cf. p.953 Dan Tlen